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Excerpt from Feeding Prickly Pear to Stock in Texas In addition to those mentioned, there is a distinct species which it is believed has not heretofore been recognized by botanists. This is common south and east of Cotulla, consequently is found growing in the Encinal region, where one of the experiments was conducted. It is very distinct from the species previously mentioned, with which it is always associated. It is different in general appear ance, as well as in its more strictly botanical characters, being the tallest, most woody, and most loosely branched of the prickly pears of southern Texas. It is characterized by circular joints and by single, erect, long, straw-colored, translucent, bonelike spines, which occasionally have a tinge of red at the base. It-blooms and matures its fruit four to six weeks later than the forms of Opuntia lindheimeri, the most common of the Texas pears, and its fruit is smaller and more nearly globular. This plant is almost universally known among the Mexican population of this section as cacanapa. It will doubt less be described as a new species, in which case it would be advisable to use cacanapa as the specific name. All of these forms included under Opuntia lindheimeri were used in these experiments, the yellow - spined or typical one predominating in the rations. More of the brown-spined form was fed at Encinal than at San Antonio, although considerable of it was fed at the latter place. At Encinal some cacanapa was fed, but probably not more than 1 or 2 per cent of the ration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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